In last night’s werkroom session, Miz Cracker peels back another layer of her life story and reveals how growing up in poverty affected her. “Everything that we had was made by my mother or my sister and I,” Miz Cracker revealed. “That moral stance was helped by the fact that we were desperately poor.”

Through the times she’s gone without basic necessities, Miz Cracker has learned to channel it into a passion for creating. “It was a really weird life, but it made me super creative!”

Check out the touching clip above and don’t forget to catch RuPaul’s Drag Race Thursday at 8/7c only on VH1!